Technology

A couple of additions to Mike Dimmick’s letter to Microsoft on anti-virus software and how not everyone needs it. Don’t use Internet Explorer Don’t use Outlook Express This seems to connect well with his other points. OE happily lets you run executable attachments, or runs them for you, and many (most) security patches I see […]

I discovered halfway through writing this entry the first time that when Windows XP starts doing it’s “refresh the screen icons” thing a lot it means that the OS is going to inexplicibly lock up and reboot the computer Real Soon Now. sigh I wish I knew what XP was doing when it does this,

Played around a bit today with nload, a text load meter for unix systems. As you can see above, it’s pretty nifty. Can you guess when I started a big data transfer? I bet you can. I’d also like to note that either my samba setup needs some serious tweaking, or SMB just sucks compared

When I saw this post by Adam Kessel which pointed to Microsoft goes after Linux kernel downloaders? story posted to the Linux-elitists list I have to wonder if it’s an early april fools joke. The short story is someone put a copy of the Linux kernel source code in a torrent and posted with a

Last night I fixed the mailing list software running on Ufies.org. This morning I have 116 spams sitting in the “awaiting approval” page. Everything from penis enlargement spam to dvd copying spam. Yay. Is there a “discard all” option for mailman maybe?

Ok, so for it’s history site Apple has Folklore.org, with anecdotes, pictures… Microsoft on the other hand, has (as noted by scoble), a file download. In .doc format. Looking exactly like any other boring download. How….. boring. The document itself is just as dry and uninteresting (and displays with text far too small to read

Surreal moment of the day. Scene: The office the programming folks (or whatever we call ourselves) are using while renovations are going on. Random Dude Who I’ve Never Seen Before walks in. Random Dude: “Is $otherprogrammer here?” Me: “No” RD: “Maybe you can help me, do you know DOS?” Me: <Long pause>”Uhmm…. it’s been a

Just thinking over things about the UFies.org situation. One thing when talking to Fred and Neil this evening about was how to get the box back up. Neil was willing to donate an athlon motherboard and CPU to me. My problem was that gentoo is compiled for your hardware, and to really get the benefit

As I noted (a little bluntly, sorry about that) over at Dana’s, Netmaster Merilus Netmaster has updated their software. It was release on January 5th but I only found out about it yesterday as I was emailing to find out the status of some business stuff with my old co-workers. Anyway, this updates a bunch

Just doing some stuff and work and found a couple of new things, figured I’d share. The following bash code will list all the pages getting a 404 error, in order of the number of files, from a standard combined format apache log file: cat apache-log | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 7,9 | grep